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The 11-year-old Californian tried softball, then soccer, even ice skating. She "failed miserably" at each one. Then, Deena Kastor just started running — all the way to the Olympics. And the now 43-year-old hasn't stopped since. "From the first day on the Santa Monica mountain trails, I just fell in love with the sport," said Kastor, one of the world's top women's marathoners and owner of at least five U.S. distance records. "I just couldn't believe that for 11 years I lived at the foot of those mountains before I realized I could actually go into them. In the other sports there's a lot of boring sitting around, doing nothing. When...

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